Sad news about SiFive lately :/ all but the founding members got cut. We'll see where that goes...

But yes, RISC-V getting better and more performant is a net gain. I'm thinking that open firmware will be the future battleground of liberation movements.

"Listen, you can't have open firmware, because manufacturers want to give you secret sauce security, and also authorities need to catch terrorists and pedophiles... see, they are evil and-" sush.. let me have my long lasting, open firmware system. I want it, I want it NAO!!